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As healthcare professionals, you are surrounded by the greatest stories on the planet. Your work isn't just about data and credentials. It's about people. It's about saving lives and changing lives, every single day. Here are a few ways to effectively tell a story.

This case study will examine a year of data and include reports on internal marketing efforts to Reid Health's 2500 employees, as well as external marketing efforts within Reid's designated service area and beyond, by targeting prospects throughout Indiana and Ohio.

The Surgeon General's report called addiction "a bigger health problem than cancer." This is a call to arms for every hospital in the nation. The heroin epidemic is decimating whole generations. The crisis is bringing clinical, financial, operational and messaging challenges to health systems everywhere. Three experts have joined together to bring you insights from ground zero of this epidemic.

Learn how to transform your town hall sessions to engage your employees in the strategic direction of your organization, help staff understand the "why" and garner CEO support for two-way communication. Dayton Children's employees attended quarterly town hall sessions for staff that weren't interactive, or engaging, and therefore, they weren't well attended.

HealthEast, a four-hospital system serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul region, was determined to make good use of its patient portal—to improve health outcomes by sharing proactive, consistent health information that patients could access anywhere. Read more about their implementation of two digital health tools.

Read more about the internal communications renovation at the University of Texas Medical Branch after a years-long recovery from 2008's Hurricane Ike, which did $1 billion in damage to the headquarters campus.

When a crisis occurs in your community, how should your hospital or health system's public relations/communications team respond? Whether an incident is local in nature or has national or international implications, it is vital for hospitals to have a crisis plan in place that will ensure effective communications to all key internal and external audiences, and stakeholders — and protect the hospital's reputation.

Learn how UTMB created a new internal communications initiative for "two-way" communication, focusing on feeding content to managers for regular communications sessions with employees in all work areas.

This resource showcases stories " and lessons learned " by a panel of hospital communicators from some of the most tragic headlines, including the Boston Marathon bombing, the San Bernardino shootings, and the Virginia on-air shootings.